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Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff is joining the cast of CSI in a potentially recurring role, a CBS rep confirmed. Sackhoff will play Detective Reed, a smart investigator who doesn't do well with sensitivity. Her first episode is slated to air during November sweeps, according to Entertainment Weekly, which first reported the news. Sackhoff was reportedly close to joining the veteran CBS procedural in 2008 when originating cast member Jorja Fox left the series. The producers, however, went another route, and Fox has since returned to the show on a recurring basis.

Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood (but is now a state of mind and everywhere), a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called “Battlestar Galactica.”

Battlestar Galactica is nearing the end of its run on television and it seems natural that someone out there might consider transitioning this thing to the big screen, especially considering the show’s rampant popularity among both fans and critics. So HR reports that Universal Pictures is working on a Battlestar movie. Except they aren’t using the version you saw on TV as the film’s basis. Nope, instead they’ve hired Glen Larson, the guy responsible for the original, extremely cheesy 80s version to make the film. Larson has had very little to do with the new, much more popular version of...

Any comments on the new episode? So the 13th tribe were Cylons...

SCI FI Channel has given a green light to Caprica, ordering 20 hours of the much-anticipated prequel to its hit series Battlestar Galactica, the network announced. The drama, which kicks off with a two-hour pilot movie, stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker. Set 50 years before the events in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families--the Graystones and the Adamas--as they grow, compete and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies, a society recognizably close to our own. Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the...

As the Internet continues to make significant strides in gaining respectability among mainstream media, more and more attention has been focused on the true power of the World Wide Web. Some of that power was felt just a couple weeks ago when Web-savvy viewers of the CBS series "Jericho" convinced the network they were not paying enough attention to how the show was being distributed through non-traditional means -- you know, the Internet -- and in the end, had vastly miscalculated the audience for the show. On top of that, the campaign to organize the "Save Jericho" campaign came almost...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The upcoming fourth season of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" will be its final one after all. After months of speculation, the show's producers are set to make the announcement at a press conference Friday. Ending "Battlestar" with the upcoming 22-episode fourth season was a creative decision made by the hit show's executive producers Ronald Moore and David Eick. "This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and, finally, an end," Eick and Moore said in a statement Thursday. "Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have...

SCI FI Channel announced that it has renewed its Peabody-winning original series Battlestar Galactica, ordering 13 new episodes. Production will resume this summer in Vancouver, Canada, with an eye toward a January 2008 premiere. The decision comes after the series' successful move to a new 10 p.m. timeslot on Sundays. Since moving, Battlestar Galactica's audience has grown over its third-season average by 8 percent in total viewers, by double digits in female viewers, by 19 percent in the show's target demographic of adults aged 18-49 and by 14 percent in adults 25-54. The Jan. 28 episode, "Taking a Break From...

This weeks Sci-Fi thread: Sun: Dresden Files 9/8 - SciFi Channel Battlestar Galacica 10/9 -SciFi Channel Mon: Heros 8/7 - NBC

So, now that everyone from the east coast to hawaii has probably see this weeks episode, I think it's time to post the weekly FR BSG thread. What did you all think?

Here are webisodes part 1 and part 2 for Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance Part 1Part 2

Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told fans that the upcoming third season of the hit SF series could see some fatalities among the characters. "Oh, there're some changes in the air," Moore said at the 64th World Science Fiction Convention, or WorldCon, in Anaheim, Calif., over the weekend. "We're going to lose some people this year. Not all of our friends are going to make it all the way." Moore declined to be specific, but said that the show's writers have finished breaking the story arc for the end of the upcoming...

SCI FI Channel and its sister NBC Universal networks will air a one-hour recap special of the original series Battlestar Galactica in advance of the show's October third-season premiere. Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far will incorporate footage from the original SCI FI miniseries and the previous two seasons of the Peabody Award-winning series. The special will be narrated from the point of view of Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), the resistance leader on Cylon-occupied New Caprica. The special will also appear on SCIFI.COM's SCI FI Pulse broadband network. The special will be broadcast as follows: Aug. 13 at 10 p.m....

Earlier this month, NBC Universal announced that SCI FI Channel would broadcast original Battlestar Galactica webisodes on its new broadband Internet channel SCI FI Pulse. Pulse is also increasing the amount of series providing totally original additional material. Now the title of the Web-based, limited series has been revealed: Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance. The announcement was made at NBC Universal's official upfront press briefing. The network upfronts are aimed at advertisers but also let viewers in on the final decisions about what shows are returning, which have been cancelled, and what new series have been picked up for the fall....

Battlestar Galactica jumps to the digital world with a series of original webisodes, now in production. SCI FI will debut the series as part of its new "SCI FI Pulse" online broadband network. GateWorld has learned that an early webisode will be titled "Crossroads." It is not yet known whether this is the first episode, nor how many installments will be produced. Check out SCI FI Pulse now at SciFi.com! The just-launched feature includes several popular Galactica features including executive producer David Eick's video blog, the climactic final moments of the Season Two finale, and the entire episode "Scar" for...

Battlestar Galactica took home three Saturn Awards May 2 at the 32nd annual gala in Universal City, California. The series won for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series. Top actors, producers, and production companies attended to also see James Callis ("Dr. Gaius Baltar") and Katee Sackhoff ("Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace" take home awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress on television. The top television prize for broadcast networks went to Lost, this year's Best Network Television Series. SCI FI's The Triangle also tied with Masters of Horror for Best Television Presentation. The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror was founded...

Sorry the late announcement: 11/10 - Battlestar Galactica Miniseries is showing..

Battlestar Galactica co-star Tricia Helfer ("Number Six") has been honored with two Leo Award nominations, just announced by the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia. The prestigious awards recognize excellence in film and television produced in British Columbia. Helfer has picked up a nomination for Best Lead Performance By A Female in a Dramatic Series for the Galactica episode "Pegasus," the show's only nomination this year. The actress played the dual roles of Number Six and another copy of the Cylon, abused Pegasus prisoner Gina. The only other nominee in the category is Erin Karpluk, for Godiva's...

The latest issue of DreamWatch features an interview with actor Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica TV Series and now plays Tom Zarek in the Galactica remake. Hatch talked about how he continues to feel that a continuation of the original series would have been just as successful as the Ronald D. Moore's re-imagining. "I don't think a continuation would have been any less successful than a re-imagining," he stated firmly. "A continuation would have evolved the original show: it would have updated the Cylons, brought new characters in and gone into equally provocative areas....

SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica has been honored with the prestigious Peabody Award, which recognizes distinguished achievement in electronic media. It is the first Peabody Award for the network. The Peabody Board is a 16-member group, comprised of television critics, broadcast and cable industry executives and experts in culture and the arts, that judges the entries. Selection is made by the board following review by special screening committees of UGA faculty, students and staff. "As is the case every year, submissions for consideration by the Peabody Board provide insight into the astonishing array of electronic media productions" said...